https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 15 May 2026 00:11:50 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1582254 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:29:22 +0000 birdofafeather 1582254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: it's barre classes. low impact, tons of stretching and they have protocols for pregnancy/post partum so you won't injure yourself. the one by me has child care available for all the classes as well! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1581394 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:24:47 +0000 Mrs. J 1581394@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've just been eating well and drinking LOTS of water. I haven't had a ton of time for working out between caring for LO and work, but I've managed to lose all the baby weight plus a few pounds (I'm 5 months pp). At this point, I need to tone like crazy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577777 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:05:06 +0000 Ash 1577777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: I like myfitnesspal... it's the only one I know actually! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577774 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:04:02 +0000 blackbird 1577774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use the my fitness pal app. It's slow at first because you have to populate it with your own recipes (if that's how you eat, i know I do!) but it gets easier the more you use it. The database is pretty large! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577768 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:02:43 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1577768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: Dailey method.....googling this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577764 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:02:00 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1577764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: I need to work on this. Thank you!<br /> @Baby Boy Mom: I have never heard of intermittent fasting as a way to lose weight! I've never heard of it at all, really! I only do it because I'm too busy sometimes to fix food. </p> <p>@Greentea: I didn't do anything the first time. I knew I wanted to get pregnant around a year PP, so I just walked occasionally and ate decent. It took 8-9 months to truly feel like myself again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577762 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:58:41 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1577762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ash: that's a possibility. DH is always worried I don't eat enough. </p> <p>Good reco for an app to use to log cals? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577700 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:30:50 +0000 birdofafeather 1577700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i did dailey method and drank tons of water. that's all i got! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577569 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:36:17 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1577569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Completely agree with @blackbird. I was really "stuck" for a while after my second, but needed to eat several times a day. Around 9ish months when LO started STTN I could do intermittent fasting for real- not eating between dinner and breakfast at all, and the lbs just fell off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577554 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:30:50 +0000 blackbird 1577554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>so you're basically doing intermittent fasting, and there is a solid chance you aren't getting enough calories in one big meal/day and your body is hoarding what you do eat. IF works for some people, but I would not think that it works while BFing! If your blood sugar isn't regulated, it throws off the rest of your body's metabolism. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577437 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:35:17 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1577437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jetsa: yes, it is so hard! I lost all the pregnancy weight in the first two months by eating this elimination diet, but I still need to lose more. I want to get my old body back! It takes forever! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577434 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:34:15 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1577434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: I am 4 months pp.</p> <p>@blackbird: I don't think I am overeating.....I think my issue might be that most days I don't eat often, and I only eat one (sometimes two) big meal a day (usually around 4 pm) instead of eating small meals throughout the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577354 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:52:25 +0000 jetsa 1577354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I tried to count calories (1800) at 3 months pp and my supply tanked. At 7 months pp I'm at my pre-preg weight though I'd love to lose another 10 lbs and tone up but I haven't figured out how to do that yet. I think I'm going to cut sugar but it sounds like you've already done that so really no advice just commiseration. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577324 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:37:21 +0000 tororojo 1577324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it sounds like you're doing everything you should be! You need quite a lot of calories while nursing, so I wouldn't try to cut out too many. It feels unfair that for some people the weight falls off and it's really hard for others to get rid of it all, but nursing is such a unique time for your body that you might need some extra pounds. Also curious how far PP you are- you might have more weight loss coming just from BF. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577166 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:19:02 +0000 Ash 1577166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes you're not consuming enough calories to lose weight... I'd log them to see where you stand. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577161 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:16:30 +0000 mamimami 1577161@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did Weight Watchers and it worked great. No supply issues and it makes you realize how much food we really need (which unfortunately is not a lot!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577158 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:15:07 +0000 swurlygurl 1577158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How many months pp are you? I'm curious about this too, for the future, so I'll be interested to see responses </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577149 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:05:03 +0000 Greentea 1577149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: how did you do it the first time? Is it different this time? Less sleep maybe? (I know the little sleep I get really effects me in every way). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577148 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:05:02 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1577148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p><a href="http://www.justthefactsbaby.com/mom/article/the-breastfeeding-detox-172" rel="nofollow">http://www.justthefactsbaby.com/mom/article/the-breastfeeding-detox-172</a></p> <p>I was so bummed when I realized I couldn't do the SoCal Cleanse while nursing but I tried a version of this and it helped. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577142 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:02:10 +0000 Adira 1577142@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have no advice, just commiseration. I was not able to lose much weight while breastfeeding. Every time I would try to diet even a little bit, it hurt my supply.</p> <p>Good luck to you - I hope you find a solution that works! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1577137 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:00:16 +0000 blackbird 1577137@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have minimal experience with breastfeeding, but I would start with logging what you are eating so you know how many calories you are consuming. You can easily overeat while eating paleo. And i would up your water if you're going to exercise! And then i would just shave a couple hundred calories off your day and see what it does for you in a week. Too much will hurt your supply, so I would just lop a little off your day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/losing-weight-while-breastfeeding#post-1576653 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:46:11 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1576653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really want to do something to kick start my weight loss. I REALLY want to lose more weight and tone up by summer.<br /> I am back at the gym, eating well (pretty much entirely paleo, as I am on an elimination diet for LO), and walking daily.<br /> But the weight is just sticking. It won't budge.</p> <p>My sister started doing the Mate Fit tea detox and apparently it has amazing results. However, some of the herbs aren't safe to take while breastfeeding. Someone else I know started taking a root supplement to jumpstart her metabolism which she also is seeing results from, but I can't take this while nursing either.</p> <p>Does anyone have suggestions for ways to kick start weight loss while breastfeeding, or even workout regimens you have found to be effective? How did you lose weight successfully?<br /> Of course I plan to keep working out daily and eating right, but it just doesn't seem to be doing much right now. :( </p>